Dean Bender is retiring from gaming public relations after more than 40 years. That’s quite an accomplishment, considering gaming is only about 50 years old. As BHI founder and co-president of 42West/BHI, Bender was responsible for directing public relations campaigns for a wide range of entertainment and corporate businesses, including game…Read MoreRead More
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Soccer superstar Lionel Messi is the newest Sorare ambassador, lending the blockchain game an incredible amount of name recognition.Read MoreRead More
Image: Zoom Zoom will soon be added to Tesla vehicles according to an official announcement from the maker of the popular video conferencing app, allowing drivers to participate in video and audio calls without using a mobile device (via Drive Tesla Canada). The announcement was made by Zoom’s Group Product Manager Natasha Walia during the…
Much has been written about patent quality. But many authors approach this problem with a bias against the very idea of a patent system. These critics would “solve” the patent quality problem by cutting down the total number of issued patents rather than focusing on problem patents. They suggest increasing examiners and examination time will…
Medibank has urged its customers to be on high alert after cybercriminals began leaking sensitive medical records stolen from the Australian health insurance giant. A ransomware group with ties to the notorious Russian-speaking REvil gang began publishing the stolen records early Wednesday, including customers’ names, birth dates, passport numbers, and information on medical claims. This…
Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 Kindred was a transcendent science-fiction novel, following Dana, a young Black writer who time travels from 1970s Los Angeles to 19th century Maryland. The literary offering was lauded for its exploration of time, history, and ancestry. Decades after the success of Butler’s novel comes an FX-ordered series, created by showrunner and…
The reports were true. Facebook‘s umbrella company Meta is laying off 11,000 workers, or about 13 percent of its workforce. The company also plans to cut discretionary spending, and it will extend its hiring freeze throughout the next quarter. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the news in a blog post Wednesday, saying the decision was…
Citrix has released a fix for three high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in two of its popular products, and is now urging users to apply the patch immediately. The company has fixed three flaws found in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway. ADC is a load-balancing solution for cloud applications, apparently used by many enterprises to ensure uninterrupted…
The Nvidia RTX 4090’s cable-melting woes are still ongoing, with mounting reports of the 16-pin 12VHPWR power adapter overheating and becoming damaged – in some cases damaging the $1,599 GPU. A megathread on Reddit is collating documented cases of RTX 4090 adapters that have met with a terrible fate, with the count now rising to…
There are plenty of new Xbox Series X games still to come out before the end of the year. Beyond that, there’s an absolutely stacked lineup of games taking you well into the new year and beyond. This includes long-awaited Indies, as well as big budget blockbusters that push the limits of game design. Now…